Kishwar Desai | Nostalgia week: England settle score; but Di not looking herself
Published : Jul 5, 2021, 7:26 am IST
Updated : Jul 5, 2021, 7:26 am IST
Sculptor Ian Rank Broadley said he had worked through anecdotes, photographs and documents, and had tried to capture her warmth
Britain's Prince William, left and Prince Harry unveil a statue they commissioned of their mother Princess Diana, on what woud have been her 60th birthday, in the Sunken Garden at Kensington Palace, London, Thursday July 1, 2021. (AP/PTI)
I guess we will continue to create statues as they will, hopefully, outlive us and tell the future world who our icons were. And, despite the recent protests, during Black Lives Matter, we still feel that it is a means of honouring those who contributed something valuable. But just last week, while the statues of Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth II were being yanked down and decapitated in Canada by angry crowds — a brand new statue of another Royal icon, Princess Diana, came up in the UK, to almost-adulation. To be honest, it did not quite look like her — (and for many she resembled the former Prime Minister, Theresa May) — but hey, the sculpture supposedly represented the more charity-oriented Diana. The Diana of the later years. Yet, let us not forget that she died when she was just 36, after a very tumultuous and troubled life.